Wells Family - Person Sheet
Wells Family - Person Sheet
NameJames W. Nutt 
Birth1862, Fayette Co, PA
Death1915
FatherCapt. Adam Clarke Nutt (1839-1882)
MotherCharlotte Frances Wells (1842-1908)
Misc. Notes
- from Uniontown Republican Standard
“On June 13 of that same year (1883), Mr. Dukes, still in town, and having won a fight to retain his seat in the legislature, took a walk to the post office at Main and Pittsburgh to get his mail. Lizzie's 19-year-old brother (James) came up behind Dukes and shot him twice in the back, then three more times as the wounded man ran up the street where he dropped dead at the post office door. James Nutt was apprehended, tried in Pittsburgh, and found "not guilty on account of insanity at the time the act was committed."
“On June 13 of that same year (1883), Mr. Dukes, still in town, and having won a fight to retain his seat in the legislature, took a walk to the post office at Main and Pittsburgh to get his mail. Lizzie's 19-year-old brother (James) came up behind Dukes and shot him twice in the back, then three more times as the wounded man ran up the street where he dropped dead at the post office door. James Nutt was apprehended, tried in Pittsburgh, and found "not guilty on account of insanity at the time the act was committed."